Sydney Newman, with Contributions by Graeme Burk and a Foreword by Ted Kotcheff

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Bon: The Last Highway

The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DC’s Back In Black

JESSE FINK

The death of Bon Scott is the Da Vinci Code of rock

IN DEATH, AC/DC’s trailblazing frontman has become a rock icon, and the legend of the man known around the world simply as “Bon” grows with each passing year. But how much of it is myth? At the heart of Bon: The Last Highway is a special — and unlikely — friendship between an Australian rock star and an alcoholic Texan troublemaker. Jesse Fink, author of the critically acclaimed international bestseller The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC, reveals its importance for the first time. Leaving no stone unturned in a three-year journey that begins in Austin and ends in London, Fink takes the reader back to a ISBN 978-1-77041-409-9 legendary era for music that saw the relentless AC/DC machine 6 x 9", 440pp, paper achieve its commercial breakthrough but also threaten to come 30 colour photos in section apart. With unprecedented access to Bon’s lovers, newly unearthed $22.95 CDN / $18.95 U.S. documents, and a trove of never-before-seen photos, Fink divulges November 2017 startling new information about Bon’s last hours to solve the mystery of how he died. ✽ Features a previously unpublished audio Music fans around the world have been waiting for the original, interview with Bon, unseen photographs, and forensic, unflinching, and masterful biography Bon Scott so richly in-depth interviews with such rock legends as deserves — and now, finally, it’s here. Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones and Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony. JESSE FINK was born in London in 1973. He is the author of The Youngs: The ✽ AC/DC has sold over 200M albums and has Brothers Who Built AC/DC, which was released in more than 20 countries. Bon: The 30M Facebook fans. Back in Black is the Last Highway is his fourth book. He divides his time between Sydney, Australia, and second bestselling album of all time, after Thriller. São Paulo, Brazil, with his wife and daughter. ✽ Bon is #1 on Classic Rock’s “100 Greatest Frontmen of All Time” list, ahead of Freddie Mercury, Jim Morrison, and Robert Plant.

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Head of Drama

The Memoir of Sydney Newman

SYDNEY NEWMAN, WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY GRAEME BURK AND A FOREWORD BY TED KOTCHEFF

The memoir of the creator of Doctor Who and a SLNLUKPU)YP[PZOHUK*HUHKPHU;=HUKÄST

A MAJOR INFLUENCE on the BBC and independent television in Britain in the 1960s, as well as on CBC and the National Film Board in Canada, Sydney Newman acted as head of drama at a key period in the history of television. For the first time, his comprehensive memoirs — written in the years before his death in 1997 — are being made public. Born to a poor Jewish family in the tenements of Queen Street in Toronto, Newman’s artistic talent got him a job at the NFB under John Grierson. He then became one of the first producers at CBC TV before heading overseas to the U.K. where he revitalized ISBN 978-1-77041-304-7 drama programming. Harold Pinter and Alun Owen were 6 x 9", 592pp, paper playwrights whom Newman nurtured, and their contemporary, 48 b&w photos throughout socially conscious plays were successful, both artistically and $29.95 CDN / $22.95 U.S. commercially. At the BBC, overseeing a staff of 400, he developed September 2017 a science fiction show that flourishes to this day: Doctor Who. Providing further context to Newman’s memoir is an in-depth ✽ Sydney Newman is best remembered for his biographical essay by Graeme Burk, which positions Newman’s pioneering work in British TV drama from the legacy in the history of television, and an afterword by one of late ’50s to the late ’60s. His work includes Sydney’s daughters, Deirdre Newman. launching massively popular series The Avengers and Doctor Who. SYDNEY NEWMAN received the Order of Canada in 1991. GRAEME ✽ Doctor Who fans will be drawn to Graeme BURK is the author of three books on Doctor Who; he lives in Ottawa, Ontario. Burk’s extensive essay, which explores how TED KOTCHEFF is the author of Director’s Cut, a memoir of his life directing Newman was involved in the creation of the iconic series. Burk combed through the BBC more than 50 television shows and 20 films; he lives in Los Angeles, California. archives and Newman’s personal papers, and, in addition to his essay, annotated Newman’s story to provide more context to the memoir.

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A Dream Given Form

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A DREAM GIVEN FORM provides an accessible, comprehensive, and critical look at Babylon 5, one of the most groundbreaking series of all time. Nearly 20 years after the show ended, this indispensable companion not only covers all ﬁve seasons of Babylon 5, but also the feature-length TV movies, the spinoff series Crusade (including three non-produced episodes), The Legend of the Rangers, The Lost Tales, the canonical novels, the DC comic book series, and the short stories set in the Babylon

5 universe. Each season and text is explored thoroughly with an ISBN 978-1-77041-265-1 in-depth look at how the individual episodes, books, stories, and 6 x 9", 480pp, paper comics fit into larger ongoing storylines. $22.95 CDN / $18.95 U.S. Carefully constructed to be enjoyed by both those who have September 2017 watched the series multiple times and viewers watching for the first time, A Dream Given Form elucidates without spoiling and ✽ (SSÄ]LZLHZVUZVMBabylon 5 are available on illuminates without nitpicking. iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, and DVD. ✽ After more than 20 years, the Babylon 5 fandom K. DALE KOONTZ is the author of Faith and Choice in the Works of is going strong; its most active online hubs are Joss Whedon (McFarland, 2008). Her husband and co-author, ENSLEY F. Facebook (show creator J. Michael Straczynski GUFFEY, is an author and historian of American popular culture. Together they directly communicates with fans in groups), wrote Wanna Cook?: The Complete, Unofficial Companion to Breaking Bad. They Tumblr, Reddit, and Google+. The bi-monthly live in Shelby, North Carolina. fan newsletter Universe Today continues to publish. ✽ A Dream Given FormPZ[OLÄYZ[HUKVUS`N\PKL to cover the grand narrative of Babylon 5’s Ä]L`LHYZ[VY`HYJHZ^LSSHZHSS[OL[YHUZTLKPH productions of Babylon 5Ä]LÄSTZUV]LSZ a DC comic book series, and six short stories).

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pop classics #8 Ain’t No Place for a Hero

Borderlands

KAITLIN TREMBLAY

A deep dive into the groundbreaking and bestselling video game series

THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED first-person shooter franchise Borderlands knows it’s ridiculous. It’s a badge of pride. After all, Borderlands 2 was promoted with the tagline “87 bazillion guns just got bazillionder.” These space-western games encourage you to shoot a lot of enemies and monsters, loot their corpses, and have a few chuckles while chasing down those bazillion guns. As Kaitlin Tremblay explores in Ain’t No Place for a Hero, the Borderlands video game series satirizes its own genre, ISBN 978-1-77041-364-1 exposing and addressing the ways first-person shooter video games 4.75 x 7", 136pp, paper have tended to exclude women, queer people, and people of colour, $12.95 CDN / $12.95 U.S. as well as contribute to a hostile playing environment. October 2017 Tremblay also digs in to the way the Borderlands game franchise — which has sold more than 26 million copies — ✽ Borderlands has received critical acclaim and disrupts traditional notions of heroism, creating nuanced commercial success with over 26M copies and compelling storytelling that highlights the strengths and sold. Fans discuss the game on Reddit (69K possibilities of this relatively new narrative medium. The latest subreddit contributors), on gamer blogs, and in entry in the acclaimed Pop Classics series, Ain’t No Place for a YouTube tutorials/critiques. Hero is a fascinating read for Borderlands devotees as well as the ✽ Game four in the Borderlands franchise has uninitiated. been announced, and fans expect its release PULHYS` HS[OV\NOUVVɉJPHSKH[LOHZ KAITLIN TREMBLAY is a writer, independent game developer, and ILLUZL[(ÄSTIHZLKVU[OLNHTLPZHSZVPU development with Lionsgate. narrative producer in video games. She is the co-editor of the speculative fiction ✽ Ain’t No Place for a Hero presents a focused anthology Those Who Make Us: Canadian Creature, Myth, and Monster Stories case study on how good storytelling can be and has written about video games for Playboy, Vice, and the Mary Sue. She is a implemented in large-scale AAA games. narrative design mentor in video games and can always be found ranting about video games and storytelling on Twitter at @kait_zilla. Kaitlin lives in Toronto. LATEST IN THE POP CLASSICS SERIES Gentlemen of In My Humble the Shade Opinion My Own Private Idaho My So-Called Life Jen Sookfong Lee Soraya Roberts 978-1-77041-313-9, paper 978-1-77041-308-5, paper $12.95 CDN / U.S. $12.95 CDN / U.S. ecw press | fall 2017 frontlist humour 5

A Brief History of Oversharing

6UL.PUNLY»Z(U[OVSVN`VM/\TPSPH[PVU SHAWN HITCHINS

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COMEDIAN SHAWN HITCHINS explores his irreverent nature in this debut collection of essays. Hitchins doesn’t shy away from his failures or celebrate his mild successes — he sacrifices them for an audience’s amusement. He roasts his younger self, the effeminate ginger-haired kid with a competitive streak. The ups and downs of being a sperm donor to a lesbian couple. Then the fiery redhead professes his love for actress Shelley Long, declares his hatred of musical theatre, and recounts a summer spent in Provincetown working as a drag queen. Nothing is sacred. His first major break-up, how his mother plotted the murder of the family cat, his difficult relationship ISBN 978-1-77041-326-9 with his father, becoming an unintentional spokesperson for all 5.25 x 8.25", 240pp, paper redheads, and mandy moore many more. $19.95 CDN / $15.95 U.S. Blunt, awkward, emotional, ribald, this anthology of September 2017 humiliation culminates in a greater understanding of love, work, and family. Like the final scene in a Murder, She Wrote episode, ✽ A Brief History of Oversharing promises everyone the A-ha! “Hitchins is a funny and gifted performer who could easily host a late-night talk show.” moment Oprah tells us to experience. Paired with bourbon, — Now Magazine Scottish wool, and Humpty Dumpty Party Mix, this journey is ✽ Shawn has been featured in the Guardian, best read through a lens of schadenfreude. the /\ɉUN[VU7VZ[, the Times Colonist, the Torontoist, and Metro, and on CNN, BBC Best known for sparking the global wave of Ginger Pride by marching hundreds of Worldwide, CBC Radio, and BuzzFeed. His redheads through the streets of Edinburgh, SHAWN HITCHINS is an award- hashtag #gingernation has made over 2.4M winning entertainer who has toured throughout Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. impressions on Twitter. Hitchins was raised in a hayfield, educated in a swamp, and still has all his own ✽ He will tour to promote the book in his follow- teeth. He resides in Toronto, Ontario (a city he’s tried to escape since Y2K). up comedy show of the same title, and he will appear at BEA 2017.

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The Rights of Nature

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An important and timely recipe for hope for humans and all forms of life

PALILA V HAWAII. New Zealand’s Te Urewera Act. Sierra Club v Disney. These legal phrases hardly sound like the makings of a revolution, but beyond the headlines portending environmental catastrophes, a movement of immense import has been building — in courtrooms, legislatures, and communities across the globe. Cultures and laws are transforming to provide a powerful new approach to protecting the planet and the species with whom we share it. Lawyers from California to New York are ﬁghting to gain legal rights for chimpanzees and killer whales, and lawmakers are ending ISBN 978-1-77041-239-2 5.5 x 8.5", 280pp, paper the era of keeping these intelligent animals in captivity. In Hawaii $19.95 CDN / $15.95 U.S. and India, judges have recognized that endangered species — from September 2017 birds to lions — have the legal right to exist. Around the world, more and more laws are being passed recognizing that ecosystems — rivers, forests, mountains, and more — have legally enforceable ✽ Boyd is the award-winning author of 100+ rights. And if nature has rights, then humans have responsibilities. articles and eight books, and a leading environmental lawyer who has worked closely In The Rights of Nature, noted environmental lawyer David Boyd with David Suzuki on numerous projects. tells this remarkable story, which is, at its heart, one of humans as a ✽ For fans of Steven Wise and readers of Are We species ﬁnally growing up. Read this book and your world view will Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals be altered forever. Are?, The Sixth Extinction, and This Changes Everything. DAVID R. BOYD is an environmental lawyer, professor, and advocate for ✽ “Environmentalists, students, and interested recognition of the right to live in a healthy environment. Boyd is the award-winning YLHKLYZ^PSSÄUK[OPZHJJLZZPISLIVVRH author of eight books, including The Optimistic Environmentalist, and co-chaired morale booster and a spur to become part of Vancouver’s Greenest City initiative with Mayor Gregor Robertson. He lives on this great transition.” — Library Journal on Pender Island, B.C. For more information, visit DavidRichardBoyd.com. The Optimistic Environmentalist

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Resilience

5H]PNH[PUN3PML3VZZHUK[OL Road to Success

LISA LISSON

An inspiring book for readers of Sheryl Sandberg and Arlene Dickinson

LISA LISSON’S life seemed perfect: she had married her high school sweetheart, applied her marketing degree to a position at FedEx Express Canada, and risen to become a vice president (and would ultimately become president) of the company. One night, after putting their four children to bed, her husband, Patrick, marvelled that their lives seemed perfectly happy. Just a few hours later, everything changed. One moment Lisa was sleeping beside Patrick, and the next, she was kneeling on the ﬂoor beside his unconscious body frantically administering CPR. Patrick had had a massive heart attack and was in a coma, and the doctors were blunt: there was no hope. But for the next two years, Lisa stood by his side and awaited ISBN 978-1-77041-398-6 a miracle, while continuing to balance life as a high-powered 5.5 x 8.5", 240pp, cloth executive and mother of four. 12 colour photos in section Part leadership guide, part memoir of loss, and part personal $29.95 CDN / $24.95 U.S. October 2017 empowerment primer on how to achieve your goals no matter what the universe throws at you, Resilience is an inspirational story about how to rise to the top in a man’s world, triumph over ✽ Resilience covers important topics such as adversity, lead a fulﬁlling life, and live each day with purpose and SLHKLYZOPWMVY^VTLUÄUKPUNHULIIHUKÅV^ gratitude. between family and career, making end-of-life choices for our loved ones, dealing with loss, LISA LISSON is the president of FedEx Express Canada. She has been and discovering hope and happiness. ✽ awarded a Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of her achievements and was Lisa’s award-winning Undercover Boss LWPZVKL^HZÄYZ[IYVHKJHZ[[VHUH\KPLUJLVM inducted into the Women’s Executive Network Top 100 Hall of Fame in 2015. She 6.2M in April 2012 and regularly airs as a lives in Burlington, Ontario. re-run on the W Network and TLC. ✽ For readers of Lean In, Persuasion, Our Turn, and

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Best Canadian Sports Writing STACEY MAY FOWLES AND PASHA MALLA, EDS.

38 pieces that will be remembered for seasons to come

FOR 25 YEARS, sports journalists south of the border have been collected in best-of anthologies. With Best Canadian Sports Writing, editors Stacey May Fowles and Pasha Malla offer a long overdue rejoinder from the North, showcasing top literary sports writing from diverse homegrown talent. This extraordinary anthology of recent writing mixes columns and long-form journalism, proﬁles and reportage, new voices and well-known favourites such as Stephen Brunt, Rachel Giese, Eric Koreen, Morgan Campbell, and Cathal Kelly. The assembled pieces offer polished prose, unusual perspectives, and rare insight into their subjects, whether it’s a Filipino basketball league in the Yukon, the rise and fall of ski ballet, or a trip to the Mexican hometown of ISBN 978-1-77041-372-6 the Jays’ Roberto Osuna. With its many voices and approaches, Best 5.5 x 8.5", 380pp, paper $22.95 CDN / $18.95 U.S. Canadian Sports Writing expands the genre into more democratic September 2017 and conversational territory, celebrating the perspectives of both fans and experts alike. These remarkable pieces offer lasting insight that, like sport ✽ This collection draws a clear picture of why itself, excites, inspires, and never fails to reveal the truth about sports mean so much to us and what they say ourselves. about our broader culture. ✽ Pieces were selected on the basis of STACEY MAY FOWLES is an award-winning novelist, journalist, and their literary quality, innovative approach, essayist. She has written about sports for the Globe and Mail, the Walrus, and diversity of both subject matter and authorship. Torontoist, the National Post, Deadspin, Hazlitt, and Vice Sports, among others. Her most recent book, Baseball Life Advice, was published in spring 2017. She lives in Toronto, Ontario. PASHA MALLA is the award-winning author of six books, most recently Fugue States, a novel, and Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion, a collection of “found sports poetry” co-assembled with Jeff Parker. He contributes frequently to NewYorker.com, CBC Radio, and the Globe and Mail. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario.

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Dennis Maruk

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DENNIS MARUK WITH KEN REID, FOREWORD BY BRYAN TROTTIER

From feared NHL sniper to ship captain and bellhop — with hockey’s greatest ’stache

ONLY 20 MEN in NHL history have scored 60 or more goals in a single season: Gretzky, Lemieux, and Hull all hit the magical mark. And so did an undersized, take-no-prisoners centre named Dennis Maruk. When Maruk found the back of the net 60 times in 1981–82, he was the toast of Washington — he even dined with the president. A few short years later, he was out of the game. Maruk not only left the rink, his life did a complete 180. Instead of flying up the ice and in on goal, he was behind the wheel of a service ship in the Gulf of Mexico. Instead of setting up teammates, he was setting up furniture for Goldie Hawn. He was never sent down to the farm as a rookie, but after the game he was ISBN 978-1-77041-331-3 a farmhand for John Oates. And instead of fighting in the corners, 6 x 9", 320pp, cloth Dennis Maruk found himself fighting for his life. colour photos in section $29.95 CDN / $25.95 U.S. October 2017 DENNIS MARUK scored 356 goals and added 522 assists for 878 points in 888 career NHL regular season games. He played in two NHL All-Star Games and still holds the Washington Capitals’ record for most points (136) in a single ✽ Few players in NHL history have engineered season. He lives in Toronto, Ontario. KEN REID is co-anchor of the weeknight as many one-on-none scoring chances as edition of Sportsnet Central. He is the author of the national bestseller Hockey Maruk. His expertise combined with his Card Stories as well as One Night Only. He lives in Toronto, Ontario, with his wife impressive stats led him to be selected for the All-Star Team in 1978 and 1982. and two sons. BRYAN TROTTIER was an NHL star for 18 seasons, winning ✽ As proven by the success of Theo Fleury’s six Stanley Cups. He was a first ballot Hall of Famer. and Clint Malarchuk’s memoirs, players struggling with life after hockey is a timely subject. ✽ Ken Reid has a substantial fan base and his shows are broadcast into hockey towns in the U.S. @SNKenReid has 12.8K Twitter followers.

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Fast Ice

Superstars of the New NHL

ANDREW PODNIEKS

The speed and skill of a new hockey generation — in photos and stories

FROM THE INCREDIBLE DEBUT of Auston Matthews to the unparalleled speed of Connor McDavid, the NHL is experiencing a rebirth that is based on speed and skill, not size, ﬁghting, or intimidation. Fast Ice: Superstars of the New NHL features proﬁles of more than 50 of today’s greatest stars. Included are veterans like Sidney Crosby and arch-rival Alexander Ovechkin, but the heart of the book is the youth movement that has given fans new optimism for an exciting future. Written by bestselling author Andrew Podnieks and featuring dozens of full- ISBN 978-1-77041-429-7 colour photographs, this is sure to be a compelling addition to the 7 x 9.25", 176pp, paper hockey lover’s library. 80 photos, full colour throughout $24.95 CDN / $19.95 U.S. ANDREW PODNIEKS is the author of nearly 100 sports books, including October 2017 Great Moments in Canada’s Sporting History (Moydart Press, 2017). He has written extensively on the NHL and international hockey and sits on the IIHF’s

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Gratoony the Loony

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GILLES GRATTON was not a typical pro hockey player. He refused to don his equipment and man his net if the planets were not properly aligned. He skated naked at practice. He created one of hockey’s most famous goalie masks based on his astrological sign. He fought with coaches and management, speaking his mind to his detriment. Sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll ruled his life, not stopping pucks. Truthfully? He never really wanted to be an NHL goaltender; he wanted to be Tibetan monk. And so, he quit hockey to seek enlightenment. Now, in his autobiography, Gratton teams up with author Greg Oliver to tell his wild and at times, yes, loony story: from his early days in Montreal, where his brother Norm Gratton became ISBN 978-1-77041-337-5 an NHL player, too; through his stints with the OHA’s Oshawa 6 x 9", 260pp, paper Generals, the Ottawa Nationals and Toronto Toros of the rogue 15 b&w photos throughout WHA, and the St. Louis Blues and New York Rangers in the colour photos in section $19.95 CDN / $16.95 U.S. NHL. October 2017

GILLES GRATTON is a former goaltender who currently works with Classic Auctions, a historical hockey memorabilia auction house. He lives in Montreal with ✽ Gilles Gratton got his start in hockey at an his wife, Anne, and teenaged children, William and Charlotte. GREG OLIVER early age. Gratton went on to star in the OHA, is the author of six hockey books, including the Globe and Mail bestselling Don’t WHA, and NHL, before early retirement at Call Me Goon, as well as Father Bauer and the Great Experiment. He lives in age 24. ✽ Toronto with his wife, Meredith, and son, Quinn. For readers of Clint Malarchuk’s The Crazy Game, Derek Sanderson’s Crossing the Line, and Theo Fleury’s Playing with Fire.

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Toronto and the Maple Leafs

A City and Its Team

LANCE HORNBY, FOREWORD BY RON ELLIS

100 years of love, celebration, heartbreak, and even parades

ON DECEMBER 19, 2017, the Toronto Maple Leafs ofﬁcially turn 100. In the spirit of the centenary celebrations, Toronto and the Maple Leafs explores the city’s relationship with its most beloved sports team. No matter how many times the Jays and Raptors make the playoffs, it’s a Leafs game that still brings the city together on a cold Saturday night and fuels the talk shows all summer. But why are fans so absorbed by a team that has not won a Cup in 50 years? Veteran Leafs and NHL columnist Lance Hornby gives readers an insider’s perspective on how the pulse of the city and team ISBN 978-1-77041-362-7 6 x 9", 240pp, paper became one through two world wars, the Depression, the zany 20 b&w photos throughout Harold Ballard years, and, until recently, dysfunctional hockey $22.95 CDN / $18.95 U.S. operations. Toronto and the Maple Leafs includes insights and October 2017 stories from Mayor John Tory to Joe Fan; from inﬂuential voices of the Leafs, such as Foster Hewitt and Joe Bowen, to the ushers, cleaners, and ticket scalpers. Not to mention a funeral director ✽ ;OLIVVRVɈLYZHUPUZPKLYWLYZWLJ[P]L featuring original interviews with players, who performs Leafs-themed services. prominent Torontonians, and Leafs superfans. An unforgettable book about the good teams, bad games, 0[»ZÄSSLK^P[O^VUKLYM\SPUZPNO[[V\JOPUN and bizarre times of this franchise’s history, this is the perfect history, and great nostalgia. companion for every Leafs fan. ✽ In his research for Toronto and the Maple Leafs, Hornby spoke with every Maple Leaf LANCE HORNBY has covered the Maple Leafs and the NHL for the Toronto who has played for the team over the last 25 Sun since 1986. RON ELLIS played for the Toronto Maple Leafs for 16 years, most notably Sittler, Clark, Gilmour, seasons, was a member of the team’s last Cup-winning squad in 1967, and took and Sundin. part in the 1972 Summit Series. Both live in Toronto, Ontario.

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*\WVM*VɈLL Welcome to Maple A Photographic Tribute Leaf Gardens to Lesser Known Toronto Photographs and Memories from Maple Leafs, 1978–99 Canada’s Most Famous Arena Graig Abel and Lance Hornby Graig Abel and Lance Hornby 978-1-77041-272-9, paper 978-1-77041-163-0, paper $19.95 CDN / U.S. $39.95 CDN / U.S. ecw press | fall 2017 frontlist wrestling 13

Mad Dog

The Maurice Vachon Story

BERTRAND HÉBERT AND PAT LAPRADE, TRANSLATED BY GEORGE TOMBS

The true story of one of pro wrestling’s most charismatic, feared, and beloved icons

WHO WAS Maurice the man, and who was Mad Dog the character? Maurice “Mad Dog” Vachon was a gold medalist, a pro-wrestling legend, and a pop culture icon — but he was also a son, husband, and father. Mad Dog explores Vachon’s career and personal struggles with painstakingly detailed historical research and through both Maurice’s own recollections and those of the people who knew him best. As a young man, Maurice could have chosen a dark criminal path, but then wrestling and family changed him. Chronicling his slow but steady rise to prominence across America and internationally in some of pro wrestling’s most important ISBN 978-1-77041-332-0 territories, this in-depth biography shows how Vachon’s life came 6 x 9", 320pp, paper to be defined by the words of Mark Twain: “It’s not the size of 36 b&w photos throughout $19.95 CDN / $16.95 U.S. the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” Fiercely September 2017 proud, motivated, and supremely talented, Vachon’s story is also the amazing tale of how a lifelong make-believe heel became a real-life hero outside of the ring. ✽ Maurice “Mad Dog” Vachon was a WWE Hall With a foreword by his brother, Paul Vachon, and an afterword VM-HTLYHÄ]L[PTL(>(>VYSK/LH]`^LPNO[ by his widow, Kathie Vachon. Champion, and an Olympian (he represented Canada in the 1948 Summer Olympics and 1950 British Empire Games). BERTRAND HÉBERT co-wrote Pat Patterson’s autobiography, ✽ The book features exclusive material, Accepted. He lives in Beauharnois, Quebec. He also co-wrote Wrestling Observer YL]LSH[VY`ÄYZ[WLYZVUPU[LY]PL^ZHUK Newsletter’s 2013 book of the year, Mad Dogs, Midgets and Screw Jobs with photographs from the WWE Hall of Famer’s PAT LAPRADE. Laprade is the co-author of Sisterhood of the Squared Circle, personal collection. created the Quebec wrestling Hall of Fame, and lives in Montreal. GEORGE ✽ “I’ve learned so many things about Maurice. TOMBS is a biographer and literary translator based in Montreal. It was very revealing. I couldn’t wait to read more about him, I was really captivated. I already had respect for Maurice; I have even

YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE more now.” — Raymond Rougeau, former WWE wrestler and announcer Mad Dogs, Midgets Accepted and Screw Jobs How the First Gay Superstar The Untold Story of how Montreal Changed WWE Shaped the World of Wrestling Pat Patterson with Pat Laprade and Bertrand Hébert Bertrand Hébert 978-1-77091-094-7, paper 978-1-77041-293-4, cloth $19.95 CDN / U.S. $27.95 CDN / $25.95 U.S. 14 fantasy ecw press | fall 2017 frontlist

Beforelife RANDAL GRAHAM

It’s okay if you don’t believe in the afterlife. The people who live there don’t believe in you, either.

WHAT IF you went to heaven and no one there believed in Earth? This is the question at the heart of Beforelife, a satirical novel that follows the post-mortem adventures of Ian Brown, a man who dies on the book’s first page and finds himself in an afterlife where no one else believes in “pre-incarnation.” The other residents of the afterlife have mysteriously forgotten their pre-mortem lives and think that anyone who remembers a mortal life is suffering from a mental disorder called the “Beforelife Delusion.” None of that really matters to Ian. All he wants to do is reunite with Penelope, his wife. Scouring the afterlife for any sign of her, Ian accidentally winds up on a quest to prove that the beforelife is real. This puts him squarely into the crosshairs of some of history’s greatest heroes and villains, all of whom seem unhealthily obsessed ISBN 978-1-77041-317-7 5.5 x 8.5", 536pp, paper with erasing Ian’s memories and preventing him from reminding $19.95 CDN / $15.95 U.S. anyone of their pre-mortem lives. Only by staying a step ahead of September 2017 his enemies can Ian hope to keep his much-needed marbles, find Penelope, and restore the public’s memories of the beforelife.

✽ The book features hidden historical RANDAL GRAHAM is a law professor at Western University. He lives in characters, some of whom have their London, Ontario, with his wife and their Himalayan kitty. identities revealed in later chapters, including Napoleon, Socrates, Nostradamus, Hammurabi, Sir Isaac Newton, Joan of Arc, and Jack the Ripper. ✽ A satirical take on Homer’s Odyssey, set in a version of the afterlife (called Detroit) that looks a good deal like the world around us. ✽ For readers of Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, Christopher Moore, and P.G. Wodehouse.

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Scion of the Fox

The Realms of Ancient, Book 1

S. M. BEIKO

As the winter ice begins to thaw, the fury of a demon builds — all because one girl couldn’t stay dead . . .

ROAN HARKEN considers herself a typical high school student — dead parents, an infected eyeball, and living in the house of her estranged, currently comatose grandmother (well, maybe not so typical) — but she’s uncovering the depth of the secrets her family left behind. Saved from the grasp of Death itself by a powerful fox spirit named Sil, Roan must harness mysterious ancient power . . . and quickly. A snake-monster called Zabor lies in wait in the bed of the frozen Assiniboine River, hungry for the sacrifice of spirit- blood in exchange for keeping the flood waters at bay. Thrust onto an ancient battlefield, Roan soon realizes that to maintain the balance of the world, she will have to sacrifice more than her life in order to take her place as Scion of the Fox. ISBN 978-1-77041-357-3 American Gods meets Princess Mononoke in this powerful first 5 x 7.75", 440pp, cloth installment of a trilogy sure to capture readers’ imaginations $19.95 CDN / $16.95 U.S. everywhere. October 2017

S. M. BEIKO has been writing and drawing strange, fantastical things since ✽ Key themes in this diverse coming-of-age tale before she can remember. She currently works as a freelance editor, graphic include death, loss, mixed/non-traditional designer, and consultant and is the co-publisher of ChiZine Publications and families, identity, environmental destruction, ChiGraphic. Her ﬁrst novel, The Lake and the Library, was nominated for the and Indigenous issues. Manitoba Book Award for Best First Book as well as the 2014 Aurora Award. Scion ✽ For readers of Leigh Bardugo, Cassandra of the Fox is the ﬁrst book of the Realms of Ancient trilogy. Samantha lives in Clare, and Kelley Armstrong. Winnipeg, Manitoba. ✽ Beiko will appear at BEA 2017.

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Malagash JOEY COMEAU

A precisely crafted, darkly humorous portrait of a family in mourning

SUNDAY’S FATHER is dying of cancer. They’ve come home to Malagash, on the north shore of Nova Scotia, so he can die where he grew up. Her mother and her brother are both devastated. But devastated isn’t good enough. Devastated doesn’t ﬁx anything. Sunday has a plan. She’s started recording everything her father says. His boring stories. His stupid jokes. Everything. She’s recording every single “I love you” right alongside every “Could we turn the heat up in here?” It’s all important. Because Sunday is writing a computer virus. A computer virus that will live secretly on the hard drives of millions of people all over the world. A computer virus that will think her father’s ISBN 978-1-77041-407-5 4.5 x 6", 182pp, paper thoughts and say her father’s words. She has thousands of lines of $15.95 CDN / $12.95 U.S. code to write. Cryptography to understand. Exploits to test. She October 2017 doesn’t have time to be sad. Her father is going to live forever.

JOEY COMEAU is the author of four novels and the webcomic A Softer ✽ Joey Comeau has a large following and has World. His work has been nominated for the ReLit and Shirley Jackson awards, received rave reviews on his previous works, has appeared in the Best American Non-Required Reading and the Guardian, including his popular bestseller 6]LYX\HSPÄLK and web comic A Softer World. His readings has been proﬁled in Rolling Stone, and has recently been translated into French, across North America are well attended. Spanish, Turkish, and German. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. ✽ “Malagash is a poignant snapshot of the wonder, joy, sorrow, and reckless daring of being alive. With it, Joey Comeau cements his place among Canada’s most talented and original writers. I loved this cleverly tender and unforgettable heartbreak of a book and I know you will too. A Monster Calls for a plugged-in age.” — Courtney Summers, author of This Is Not a Test and All the Rage

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Rose & Poe JACK TODD

“Powerful . . . Todd’s vivid language is perfectly Z\P[LK[V[OLLWPJZ^LLWVMOPZUHYYH[P]L¹ — Publishers Weekly, starred review of Rain Falls Like Mercy

SET IN mythical Belle Coeur County in a time not too far from our own, Rose & Poe gloriously re-imagines Shakespeare’s The Tempest from the point of view of Caliban and his mother. Rose and her giant, simple son, Poe, live quietly on the fringes of their town — tending their goats and working at odd jobs. Prosper Thorne, banished from his big-city law practice and worrying about his fading memory, obsessively watches over his beloved daughter Miranda. When Poe erupts from the forest one day carrying Miranda’s bruised and bloody body, he is arrested, despite his protestations of get help-get help-get help. Overnight, Rose and Poe ﬁnd themselves pariahs in the county where they have lived all their

lives. In the face of bitter hatred and threats from her neighbours, ISBN 978-1-77041-399-3 the implacable Rose devotes all her strength to proving Poe’s 5.5 x 8.5", 260pp, paper innocence and saving him from prison or worse. $18.95 CDN / $15.95 U.S. Rose & Poe is a tale of a mother’s boundless love for an October 2017 apparently unlovable child, and a stunning fable for our own troubled times. It will stick in your memory like sweet wild honey. ✽ Rose & Poe has a timely theme of mob rule — perceived wrongs and scapegoats over truth JACK TODD was born and grew up in Nebraska. He came to Canada and justice. during the Vietnam War and eventually settled in Montreal, where he has been ✽ Jack Todd’s previous novel, Rain Falls Like a columnist for the Montreal Gazette for nearly 30 years. He is the author of a Mercy, received starred reviews in Publishers memoir and three previous novels. Weekly, Booklist, and Kirkus Reviews. ✽ “Todd’s writing is exceptional and vivid . . . A brilliant, compelling . . . and highly readable novel.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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Pockets

(5V]LS STUART ROSS

)YPSSPHU[L_WLYPTLU[HSZ\YYLHSPZ[ÄJ[PVUMYVT[OL award-winning author of :UV^IHSS+YHNVUÅ` Jew

A WONDERFUL DREAM and a horrific nightmare, a fuzzy consciousness of pain and family, Pockets is a novel of fragments — both literally and figuratively. In a series of prose-poem chapters, the nameless narrator, in a largely Jewish 1960s suburb in the northern reaches of Toronto, repeatedly enters the world, as if for the first time. His landscape is one of trilobite fossils, bicycles with banana seats, Red Skelton, and overwhelming loss. Among shadows that both comfort and threaten, a brother who drifts through the sky, he finds his narrative full of pockets of emptiness he can’t help but try to fill. A heartbreakingly personal and profound work, Pockets redefines the novel, delivering infinite scope in something ISBN 978-1-77041-383-2 4.5 x 7", 90pp, paper diminutive, pocket-sized. Every reading brings new revelations. $14.95 CDN / $11.95 U.S. October 2017 STUART ROSS is a writer, editor, and writing teacher living in Cobourg, Ontario. He is the acclaimed author of 20 books of poetry, fiction, and essays. His recent books include Our Days in Vaudeville (Mansfield Press, 2014), A Hamburger ✽ The novel is set largely in a 1960s-era Jewish in a Gallery (DC Books, 2015), Further Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer suburb in northern Toronto. (Anvil Press, 2015), and A Sparrow Came Down Resplendent (Wolsak and Wynn, ✽ The book is similar in subject matter and style to :UVÎHSS+YHNVUÅ`1L^. The Globe and 2016). He was shortlisted for the 2000 Trillium Book Award, won the 2010 ReLit Mail said, “:UVÎHSS+YHNVUÅ`1L^succeeds Prize for Short Fiction for Buying Cigarettes for the Dog (Freehand Books, 2009), not only because of Ross’s distinctive style, and his novel Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew (ECW Press, 2011) was co-winner of the but also because he can think and feel with 2012 Mona Elaine Adilman Award. the best of them, and shows maturity of vision ^P[OV\[ZHJYPÄJPUN[OLJOPSKPZOZLUZLVMWSH` and absurdity his readers expect from him.”

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The Appraisal ANNA PORTER

In the vein of Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie novels comes this year’s smart new thriller with literary chops

WHEN WEALTHY octogenarian Geza Marton hires art expert Helena Marsh to buy back his family’s Titian painting, Helena flies to Budapest to close what she expects will be a reasonably simple sale. But nothing is ever simple in this beautiful, flawed city where corruption abounds. Helena discovers that there are multiple bidders for the painting, including some dangerous Slavs. Soon there are also dead bodies, and a complicated history that leads her to men Marton knew in Vorkuta, one of Stalin’s notorious gulags. As she works to unravel the truth of the painting’s ownership and dodges her tail, the dogged ex-detective Attila Feher, Helena is forced to call on all her considerable skills to stay alive and out of jail. Smart, fast-paced, and wildly entertaining, The Appraisal is a terrific thriller set against Budapest’s corruption and lost promise. ISBN 978-1-77041-410-5 5.5 x 8.5", 300pp, paper Born in Budapest, ANNA PORTER is the award-winning author of seven $19.95 CDN / $15.95 U.S. books, both non-fiction (The Ghosts of Europe, Kasztner’s Train, The Storyteller, October 2017 and Buying a Better World ) and mystery novels (Mortal Sins, Hidden Agenda, and Bookfair Murders). She co-founded Key Porter Books, an influential publishing ✽ house she ran for over 20 years. She is an Officer of the Order of Canada and Full of great local colour. Anna Porter paints Budapest and its corrupt post- has received the Order of Ontario. She lives in Toronto with her husband and the Soviet existence as only a native can. This occasionally behaved dachshund, Gustav. page-turning thriller is as much about the new Eastern Europe as it is about evading W\YZ\LYZHUKÄUKPUNHWYPJLSLZZWHPU[PUN ✽ Porter has received numerous awards for her UVUÄJ[PVUHUKOLYÄJ[PVUOHZILLUWVZP[P]LS` reviewed in such publications as the New York Times Book Review and the Times. ✽ “Suspenseful, thrilling.” — Washington Post Book World on Hidden Agenda ✽ “A deftly written novel abounding with intrigue.” — Publishers Weekly on Mortal Sins YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE Beneath the Wake Lament for Bonnie A Dr. Zol Szabo A Collins-Burke Mystery Medical Mystery Anne Emery Ross Pennie 978-1-77041-168-5, cloth 978-1-77041-276-7, cloth $26.95 CDN / $24.95 U.S. $29.95 CDN / $24.95 U.S. 20 mystery ecw press | fall 2017 frontlist

Ragged Lake

A Frank Yakabuski Mystery

RON CORBETT

Gruesome murders, a northern secret, and a buried past

WHILE WORKING one afternoon on the Northern Divide, a young tree-marker makes a grisly discovery: in a squatter’s cabin near an old mill town, a family has been murdered. An army vet coming off a successful turn leading a task force that took down infamous biker criminals, Detective Frank Yakabuski arrives in Ragged Lake, a nearly abandoned village, to solve the family’s murder. But no one is willing to talk. With a winter storm coming, Yakabuski sequesters the locals in a fishing lodge as he investigates the area with his two junior officers. Before long, he is fighting not only to solve the crime but also to stay alive and protect the few innocents left living in the desolate woods. A richly atmospheric mystery with sweeping backdrops,

ISBN 978-1-77041-394-8 explosive action, and memorable villains, Ragged Lake will keep 5.5 x 8.5", 320p, paper you guessing — about the violent crime, the nature of family, and $17.95 CDN / $14.95 U.S. secret deeds done long ago on abandoned frontiers. October 2017 RON CORBETT is an author, journalist, and broadcaster living in Ottawa. The author of seven non-ﬁction books, this is his ﬁrst novel. He is married to ✽ (ÄZOPUNSVKNLPUHÄJ[PVUHSPaLKUVY[OLYU award-winning photojournalist Julie Oliver. town becomes the centre of an explosive crime scene in this fresh, tautly written mystery. ✽ Similar in content to Jack Reacher, Corbett’s debut series will appeal to fans of James Lee Burke, Giles Blunt, and Ian Rankin.

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Zero Avenue

(*YPTL5V]LS DIETRICH KALTEIS

“If you like your crime hard and fast, Kalteis is MVY`V\¹· The Globe and Mail

SET TO the cranking beat and amphetamine buzz of Vancouver’s early punk scene, Zero Avenue follows Frankie Del Rey, a talented and rising punk star who runs just enough dope on the side to pay the bills and keep her band, Middle Finger, together. The trouble is she’s running it for Marty Sayles, a powerful drug dealer who controls the Eastside with a fist. When Frankie strikes up a relationship with Johnny Falco, the owner of one of the only Vancouver clubs willing to give punk a chance, she finds out he’s having his own money problems just keeping Falco’s Nest open. Desperate to keep his club, Johnny raids one of the pot fields Marty Sayles has growing out past Surrey, along Zero Avenue on the U.S. border. He gets away with

a pickup load and pays back everybody he owes. Arnie Binz, bass ISBN 978-1-77041-365-8 player for Middle Finger, finds out about it and decides that was 5 x 7.75”, 232pp, paper easy enough. But he gets caught by Marty’s crew. $17.95 CDN / $14.95 U.S. Johnny and Frankie set out to find the missing Arnie, but October 2017 Marty Sayles is pissed and looking for who ripped off his other field — a trail that leads to Johnny and Frankie. ✽ Elements of humour pepper a sharp, gritty storyline that revolves around smuggling and DIETRICH KALTEIS’s debut novel Ride the Lightning won an Independent border jumping. Publishers Award and was hailed as one of the best Vancouver crime novels. More ✽ 5V^VUOPZÄM[OIVVRHUKMV\Y[OZ[HUKHSVUL than 40 of his short stories have been published internationally. He lives with his crime novel with positive reviews in family in Vancouver, B.C. Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, The Globe and Mail, and the National Post, Kalteis is one to watch. ✽ “I urge you to take a ride down Zero Avenue in the Zambezi green Karmann Ghia with Frankie and her punk cohorts — you will not be disappointed!” — Lisa de Nikolits, author of The Nearly Girl

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Whipped

(U(Y[O\Y)LH\JOHTW5V]LS WILLIAM DEVERELL

The toughest case of Beauchamp’s brilliant career features sex, slander, and dirty politics

MONTREAL JOURNALIST Lou Sabatino, under witness protection after nearly being gunned down by the Maﬁa, is sucked into the quirky world of a conniving Russian dominatrix who has secretly recorded herself putting the whip to the bare bottom of a high-ranking federal cabinet minister. It’s the scoop of the century, but too hot a potato — if Lou breaks the story, he risks exposing himself to the mercies of the Maﬁa. Instead, he shows the video to Green Party leader Margaret Blake. The video is leaked, and Margaret is sued by the minister for $50 million. Enter Arthur Beauchamp, Margaret’s husband and famed criminal lawyer, who had found — or so he hoped — blissful

ISBN 978-1-77041-390-0 retirement on idyllic Garibaldi Island on the West Coast. But now 6 x 9", 396pp, cloth he’s representing the woman he loves while tormented by fears that $28.95 CDN / $24.95 U.S. she’s embroiled in an affair. September 2017 Whether you’re encountering Arthur Beauchamp for the ﬁrst time or have followed him from his ﬁrst case, Whipped will entertain as it keeps you turning the pages. ✽ A cross-Canada portrait with sections set in Montreal, Ottawa, Gatineau, Vancouver, Calgary, Halifax, southwestern WILLIAM DEVERELL was a journalist for seven years and a trial lawyer Saskatchewan, northern Quebec, and the Gulf for 25, as defender or prosecutor in more than a thousand criminal cases, Islands. including 30 murder trials. The author of over 20 novels, Deverell has won the ✽ Deverell is the creator of the hit TV series $50,000 Seal First Novel Prize and the Book of the Year Award, the Dashiell Street Legal, which has aired in over 50 Hammett Award for literary excellence in crime writing in North America, as well countries. His political satire Snow Job (#4 in as two Arthur Ellis Awards for best Canadian crime novel. His work has been the Beauchamp series) was shortlisted for the translated into 14 languages and sold worldwide. He lives on Pender Island, B.C. Leacock award.

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April Fool

(U(Y[O\Y)LH\JOHTW5V]LS WILLIAM DEVERELL

A new edition of the Arthur Ellis Award winning crime novel

ARTHUR BEAUCHAMP, the scholarly, self-doubting legend of the B.C. criminal bar, is enjoying his retirement on B.C.’s Garibaldi Island when he is dragged back to court to defend an old client. Nick “The Owl” Faloon, one of the world’s top jewel thieves, has been accused of raping and murdering a psychologist. Beauchamp has scarcely registered how unlikely it is that the rascally Faloon could commit a savage murder when his own personal life takes an abrupt turn. His new wife, Margaret Blake, organic farmer and environmental activist, has taken up residence 50 feet above ground in a tree of an old-growth forest that she is determined to save for the eagles and from the loggers. Beauchamp shuttles between Vancouver and the island, doing what he can to

defend Faloon, save the forest, and rescue his wife. Part courtroom ISBN 978-1-77041-408-2 thriller, part classic whodunit, April Fool sees Deverell writing at 6 x 9", 440pp, paper the top of his form, with a big dollop of humour. $17.95 CDN / $14.95 U.S. September 2017 WILLIAM DEVERELL was a journalist for seven years and a trial lawyer for 25, as defender or prosecutor in more than a thousand criminal cases, ✽ “April Fool thrusts itself brashly into the including 30 murder trials. The author of over 20 novels, Deverell has won the reader’s psyche like a lumber-jacketed logger $50,000 Seal First Novel Prize and the Book of the Year Award, the Dashiell H[HISHJR[PLHɈHPY9\NNLKS`PUKP]PK\HSPZ[PJ Hammett Award for literary excellence in crime writing in North America, as well demanding, and determined, its characters as two Arthur Ellis Awards for best Canadian crime novel. His work has been are shrewdly etched and realistically translated into 14 languages and sold worldwide. He lives on Pender Island, B.C. rendered.” — The Globe and Mail ✽ Originally released in 2005, April Fool is a national bestseller that received great praise in national and provincial newspapers. ✽ ECW is releasing each book in Deverell’s Arthur Beauchamp series in paperback to coincide with new installments.

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Panicle GILLIAN SZE

“Succulent in its excellence, Sze’s poetry PUZPZ[Z[OH[J\S[\YHSºKPɈLYLUJL»PZ^OH[JHU THRLHILH\[PM\SKPɈLYLUJLPUV\YHWWYLOLUZPVU VM[OLºILH\[PM\S»¹·.LVYNL,SSPV[[*SHYRLVU Peeling Rambutan

IN PANICLE, Gillian Sze makes her readers look and, more importantly, look again. It’s a collection that challenges our notion of seeing as a passive or automatic activity by asking us to question the process of looking. The book’s first section, “Underway,” deals with the moving image and includes both poetic responses to film theory and lyrical long poems while also reimagining fairy tales. The next section, “Stagings,” takes its inspiration from the still image and explores a wide range of periods, movements, and media. Sze’s focus on the process of looking anticipates “Guillemets,” a creative translation of Roland Giguère’s 1966 chapbook, Pouvoir du Noir, which contains a series of poems accompanied by his own paintings. Sze’s approach to Giguère ISBN 978-1-77041-405-1 5.5 x 8.5", 90pp, paper is two-fold: she “translates” his text, and artist Jessica Hiemstra 9 b&w illustrations throughout provides a visual response to her translation. The final section, $18.95 CDN/U.S. “Panicle,” continues the meditative quality of “Guillemets” in a September 2017 suite of poems that ruminate on nature, desire, and history.

GILLIAN SZE is the author of ﬁve poetry collections, including Peeling ✽ Themes of place, looking, photography, cinema, and the arts run throughout the Rambutan (Gaspereau Press, 2014) and Redrafting Winter (BuschekBooks, 2015), collection, which also features cross-genre both of which were ﬁnalists for the QWF A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. Her work has elements (poems and prose poems). received awards such as the University of Winnipeg Writers’ Circle Prize and the ✽ Sze’s second poetry collection, The Anatomy 3Macs carte blanche Prize. She studied creative writing and English literature of Clay, has been translated to French and and has a Ph.D. in Études anglaises from Université de Montréal. Originally from published by Editions de l’Hexagone in spring Winnipeg, she now resides in Montreal. 2017.

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The Cloud Versus Grand Uniﬁcation Theory

Poems

CHRIS BANKS

Consciousness and nostalgia in the Swipe Right age

THIS COLLECTION attempts to find poetry, or what Gwendolyn MacEwen once called “a single symmetry,” amid the chaos of 21st-century life. A powerful catalogue of loss and human connection, it considers not only how our identities are formed by places and experiences rooted in childhood, but also by digital newsfeeds, YouTube, and the “gospel of Spotify.” These poems intimately confront topics as diverse as quantum physics, video arcades, mental illness, climate change, road rage, alcoholism, endangered species, and even a gigantic Noah’s Ark replica. Chris Banks is a poet known for packing his lines with thought ISBN 978-1-77041-368-9 and feeling. Building on the generous work of John Koethe, Larry 5.5 x 8.5", 88pp, paper $18.95 CDN/U.S. Levis, and Ada Limón, Banks’s wildly expansive, often lyric, September 2017 deeply accessible poems are brilliant meditations on what it means to be human in a brave new world of cloud computing and smart phones. ✽ 6U)HURZ»ZÄYZ[JVSSLJ[PVU^P[O,*>Winter Cranes, Quill & Quire wrote, “Banks writes CHRIS BANKS is the author of Bonfires, The Cold Panes of Surfaces, and complex, nuanced lines of narrative verse Winter Cranes. His first full-length collection, Bonfires, was awarded the Jack . . . He’s a maestro with the poetry of physical objects.” Chalmers Award for poetry by the Canadian Authors’ Association in 2004 and was ✽ Millennial creative types will enjoy the a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry in Canada. His book for its reckless, almost knee-jerk poetry has appeared in the New Quarterly, Arc, the Antigonish Review, Event, the associations, while later generations will be Malahat Review, and Prism International, among other publications. He lives and very familiar with the ghostly landscape of the writes in Waterloo, Ontario. last century and its profound loss. ✽ For readers of Ada Limón, John Koethe, Paul Vermeersch, and George Murray.

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So Long, Marianne

(3V]L:[VY`·0UJS\KLZYHYLTH[LYPHSI` Leonard Cohen

KARI HESTHAMAR, TRANSLATED BY HELLE V. GOLDMAN

The story of the enigmatic woman who captured the hearts of two extraordinary artists — now in trade paper

AT 22, Marianne Ihlen travelled to the Greek island of Hydra with writer Axel Jensen. While Axel wrote, Marianne kept house, until Axel abandoned her and their newborn son for another woman. One day while Marianne was shopping in a little grocery store, in walked a man who asked her to join him and some friends outside at their table. He introduced himself as Leonard Cohen, then a little-known Canadian poet. Complemented by previously unpublished poems, letters, and photographs, So Long, Marianne is an intimate, honest account of ISBN 978-1-77041-420-4 Marianne’s life story — from her youth in Oslo, her romance with 5.5 x 8.5”, 288pp, paper Axel, to her life in an international artists colony on Hydra in the 25 b&w photos in section 1960s, and beyond. The subject of one of the most beautiful love $19.95 CDN / $16.95 U.S. songs of all time, Marianne Ihlen proves to be more than a muse July 2017 to Axel and Leonard; her journey of self-discovery, romance, and heartache is lovingly recounted in So Long, Marianne. ✽ The hardcover edition (2014) received praise in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Booklist, Award-winning journalist KARI HESTHAMAR wrote this book based the Montreal Gazette, and Quill & Quire. on lengthy conversations with Marianne Ihlen before her death in 2016 and ✽ With Marianne Ihlen’s passing in July 2016 supplemented by interviews with Leonard Cohen. Kari lives in Norway. HELLE and Leonard Cohen’s passing in November V. GOLDMAN spent her childhood on the Greek island of Hydra and in 2016, fans are more interested than ever in Providence, Rhode Island. She resides with her husband and daughter on yet this beautifully packaged material. another island, this time in Norway — above the Arctic Circle — where she is the ✽ Cohen wrote a beautiful, heartbreaking letter chief editor of an international scientiﬁc journal. to Marianne shortly before her death: “Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine . . . Goodbye old friend.”

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